CONTENTS Here are the breathings of a devout soul under distress; and the soul finding confidence at the mercy-seat, reproves some ungodly person that assaulted him. A Song of degrees. Psalms 120:1 I detain the Reader at the opening of this Psalm, just to make a short observation on the title, wh... [ Continue Reading ]
If we read another Psalm to this effect, and which hath been always considered as referring to Jesus, we shall find how the holy sufferer complains of false witnesses rising up against him. Psalms 35:11. And the awful event which terminated the life of the traitor Judas, may well be compared to what... [ Continue Reading ]
Reading these words with reference to Christ, we may well suppose that the exercises of his holy soul from day to day, were great in the society of those with whom he was constrained, as the sinner's surety, to sojourn. Hence we find him saying, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS PAUSE, my soul, over the solemn consideration which this Psalm suggests, of the wretched life, and more wretched death of the opposers of Christ and his gospel. In the traitor Judas we behold a lively representation of all. They are by the agency of the evil spirit, who is said to work... [ Continue Reading ]